Re: [PATCH] fix crashing on amd64

[muppet <scott asofyet org>]

On Jan 16, 2006, at 6:03 PM, Torsten Schoenfeld wrote:

> On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 16:29 +0100, Thierry Vignaud wrote:
>
> > On x86_64, the conversions from ptr to int and from int to ptr will
> > loose the highest bits of the pointer, leading to memory access
> > violations. Use the safer macros that perl provides instead.
>
> Applied to HEAD, is present in Glib 1.114.  I had to add some casts to
> avoid compiler warnings, though:

Those casts might be better of directly in the macros' uses of  
INT2PTR.  If REVIVE_UNDEAD and MAKE_UNDEAD returned SV*, you'd need  
only the HV* cast.

Although i'm curious as to why they needed casts --- void* is  
supposed to be compatible with any pointer type.



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